1837; partner with Merrick Bircham; founded The legal discussion society, sec. and treasurer; founded with Lord Brougham and George Birkbeck, Adult instruction society; tried at Central Criminal Court April 1844 for uttering a will of one Anne Slack knowing same to be a forgery when sentenced to be transported for life; arrived at Norfolk Island 9 Nov. 1844; moved to Tasman’s Peninsula March 1847 on breaking up of Norfolk Island establishment; granted conditional pardon by royal warrant dated 12 Nov. 1846 and a free pardon 3 Nov. 1848; arrived in Paris May 1848 and in London Nov. 1848; applied for his annual certificate as a solicitor 31 Jany. 1849, certificate refused him 6 July 1850; petition for inquiry and redress presented to House of Commons 5 April 1852; granted a certificate 21 Nov. 1855; practised in London, ceased to practice 1862. The case of Mr. W. H. Barber, 8 ed. 1853; Central criminal court, minutes of evidence by H. Buckler xix, 778–850 (1844); I.L.N. iv, 80, 249 (1844), 2 portraits.
BARBOUR, Robert. b. Renfrewshire 1797; one of the merchant princes of Manchester down to about 1864 when he retired; member of the first Synod of English Presbyterian church about 1834; endowed at cost of £12,000 a chair which bears his name in Presbyterian college; purchased Bolesworth castle near Chester 1857; sheriff of Cheshire 1866. d. Bolesworth castle 17 Jany. 1885, will proved at Chester 14 April 1885, value of personalty upwards of £472,000.
BARCLAY, Andrew Whyte (son of John Barclay, captain R.N.) b. Dysart, Fifeshire 17 July 1817; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1839; studied at Caius coll. Cam. 1843, and St. George’s hospital, London; M.B. 1847, M.D. 1852; medical registrar at St. George’s many years; F.R.C.P. 1851, examiner, councillor and censor, Lumleian lecturer 1864, Harveian orator 1881, treasurer 1884; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. soc, pres.; assistant phys. at St. George’s 1857, phys. 1862–82; the first medical officer of health at Chelsea 1856; author of Manual of medical diagnosis 1857 3 ed. 1870. d. Whitney Wood, Stevenage, Herts 28 April 1884. British Medical Journal i, 932 (1884).
BARCLAY, Arthur Kett (eld. son of Charles Barclay of Bury hill near Dorking, Surrey 1780–1855). b. 20 June 1806; ed. at Harrow; head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and Co., brewers; built an observatory at Bury hill 1848; F.R.G.S. 1840, F.R.S. 3 June 1852; paralysed 1855. (m. 20 Dec. 1836 Maria Octavia dau. of Ichabod Wright of Mapperley, Notts). d. 20 Nov. 1869.
BARCLAY, Charles. b. 26 Dec. 1780; M.P. for Southwark 1815–1818, for Dundalk 1826–1830 and for west Surrey 1835–1837; head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and Co.; pres. of Guy’s hospital; sheriff of Surrey 1842; F.R.G.S., F.S.A. d. Bury hill, Surrey 5 Dec. 1855.
BARCLAY, Hugh b. Glasgow 18 Jany. 1799; member of Glasgow faculty of procurators 1820; sheriff substitute of West Perthshire 1829, and of Perthshire 1833; sheriff of Perthshire 1883 to death; author of A digest of the law of Scotland 2 vols. 1852–53 4 ed. 1880; Thoughts on Sabbath schools 1855; The Sinaitic inscriptions 1866. d. Early bank Craigie near Perth 1 Feb. 1884.
BARCLAY, Right Rev. Joseph (only son of John Barclay of Strabane, co. Donegal who d. 9 Dec. 1845). b. Strabane 12 Aug. 1831; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin 16 Oct. 1849 to 1854, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857, LLD. 1865, D.D. 1880; C. of Bagnalstown 1854–58; missionary at Constantinople 1858–61; incumbent of Ch. Jerusalem 1861–70; R. of Stapleford, Herts 29 March 1873; bishop of Jerusalem June 1879 to death, consecrated in St. Paul’s 25 July 1879, installed 24 Feb. 1880; held 2 ordinations and 5 confirmations; author of Talmud, Selection of treatises translated from the Mishna 1878. d. the bishop’s palace, Jerusalem 23 Oct. 1881. Joseph Barclay a missionary biography 1883, portrait.
BARCLAY, Lydia Ann (dau. of Robert Barclay of Clapham). Edited Selections from the writings of Patrick Livingstone 1847; Memoirs and letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton 1849; A journal of the life and gospel labours of John Conran 1850. d. Cockermouth 31 Jany. 1855 aged 55. A short memoir of L. A. Barclay by Wm. Hodgson, junior 1855; A selection from the letters of L. A. Barclay 1862.
BARCLAY, Sir Robert, 9 Baronet. b. Dungannon 1819; succeeded 14 Aug. 1839. d. Dungannon 19 May 1859.
BARCLAY, Robert (younger son of John Barclay, a minister in Society of Friends who d. 11 May 1838 aged 41). b. Croydon 4 Aug. 1833; a manufacturing stationer in London 1855; patented March 1860 an indelible writing paper for prevention of forgery; author of The inner life of the religious societies of the Commonwealth 1876, reissued 1877 and 1878. d. Hillside, Reigate 11 Nov. 1876. Sermons by Robert Barclay with a brief memoir edited by his widow 1878, portrait.
BARCLAY, Very Rev. Thomas (son of Rev. James Barclay, minister of Unst, Shetland). b. Unst June 1792; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1812; taught elocution at Aberdeen; a parliamentary reporter for the Times 1818–22; licensed by presbytery of Lerwick 27 June 1821; ordained 12 Sep. 1822 to parish of Dunrossness, Shetland; minister of Lerwick 13 Dec. 1827; clerk of the synod of Shetland 27 Apl. 1831; minister of Peterculter Sep. 1843, and of Currie July 1844; principal of Univ. of Glasgow 13 Feb. 1858 to death; one of the best Scandinavian scholars. d. the college, Gillmore hill, Glasgow 23 Feb. 1873. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ pt. v, 422, 426.
BARCLAY, William. b. London 1797; miniature painter; made many copies from works of Italian masters in the Louvre Paris; exhibited portraits and copies in water-colours at the Salon 1831–59 and at Royal Academy 1832–56. d. 1859.
BARDELIN, Auguste de. b. Aix in Provence; member of the Garde-du-Corps of Louis xvi; emigrated to Italy, Germany and Belgium; taught French and Italian at Norwich about 1792–1814; accompanied Louis xviii to Paris 1814; lived there till 1848 when he went to Provence. (m. 1815 or 1816 Miss Sutton). d. Nice 8 May 1852 in 85 year.
BARDIN, George Gregory. Chief inspector of machinery afloat 6 Aug. 1870; C.B. 15 Aug. 1868. d. about May 1875.
BARDSLEY, Sir James Lomax (2 son of Edward Bardsley of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 7 July 1801; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1823; physician at Manchester 1823 to death; physician to Manchester royal infirmary 1824–43; member of Manchester medical society 1834, pres. 1838–42 and 1845–47; knighted by the Queen at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1853; F.R.C.P. 1859; lecturer on principles and practice of physic at Royal school of medicine Manchester 1825–43; author of Hospital facts and observations 1830 and of the articles Diabetes and Hydrophobia in the Cyclopædia of practical medicine 1833. d. The Orchard Greenheys, Manchester 10 July 1876. Photographs of eminent medical men ii, 95–98 (1868), portrait.
BARDSLEY, Samuel Argent. b. Kelvedon, Essex 27 April 1764; apprenticed to a surgeon at Nottingham; studied at Leyden Univ. 1786–89; M.D. 1789; physician at Manchester 1790; phys. to Manchester infirmary 1790 to Aug. 1823; author of Critical remarks on the tragedy of Pizarro 1800; Medical reports of cases and experiments 1807. d. near Hastings 25 May 1851.
BAREZ, Rev. Henry. Minister of the French protestant episcopal church of St. Martin Orgars formerly in Cannon st. London; granted civil list pension of £100 23 July 1840 in consideration of having taught Queen Victoria German. d. Leicester square, London 26 Dec. 1867 aged 79.
BARFF, Samuel. b. England? about 1793; lived at Zante 1816 to death, an eminent merchant and banker there; took an active part in the struggle for independence carried on by the Greek nation 1823–24. d. Zante 1 Sep. 1880 aged 87. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron; Trikoupes’ Ἰστορια τῆς Ἐλληνικῆς Ἐπαναστασεως 4 vols. 1853–57.
BARHAM, Charles Foster (4 son of Thomas Foster Barham of Penzance, Cornwall 1766–1844). b. Truro 9 March 1804; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; foundation scholar May 1823; studied in Paris and Italy 1825–28; M.B. Cam. 1827, M.D. 1860; physician Tavistock dispensary 1832–35; phys. at Truro Aug. 1837 to death; senior phys. Royal Cornwall infirmary 1838–73; pres. Royal Instit. of Cornwall 1859–61; mayor of Truro 1862; author of Report on the sanitary state of the labouring classes in the town of Truro 1842 and of many papers on meteorology and other subjects in Reports and Journal of Royal Instit. of Cornwall and other publications.